Alfred Jarry quotes
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“Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.”
-- Alfred JarrySource : "That Ubu that you do" by Mike Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.
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“God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.”
-- Alfred JarrySource : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”
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“I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.”
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“Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.”
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“It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.”
-- Alfred JarrySource : Alfred Jarry (1961). “Ubu Roi”, p.175, New Directions Publishing
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“To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.”
-- Alfred JarrySource : Katharine Noel, Alfred Jarry (2007). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr
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“The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.”
-- Alfred JarrySource : Katharine Noel, Alfred Jarry (2007). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr
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“It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.”
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“God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.”
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“La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.”
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“Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.”
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“Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.”
-- Alfred JarrySource : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr
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“We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.”
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“It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom”
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“The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.”
-- Alfred JarrySource : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”
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“You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?”
-- Alfred JarrySource : Alfred Jarry (2007). “The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.”
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“Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.”
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“Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.”
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“The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.”
-- Alfred JarrySource : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”
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“The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.”
-- Alfred JarrySource : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”
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“Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.”
-- Alfred Jarry
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