Eugene Ionesco Quotes
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Film has to describe and show.
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The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
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Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.
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It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
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I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.
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Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
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All the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.
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I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.
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If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
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He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
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Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.
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I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
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Although I would like to describe the perfect day, I can't. Because a perfect day is one where there is no plan.
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I can’t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.
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I’m adrift. That’s the feeling I’ve had since setting out today—and, really, for much of this shitburger of a year—and I’ve finally found the word to describe that feeling.
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Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant rationale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.
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I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.
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It's the moms who are overaggressive. A lot of times their daughters are very sweet and cordial, and the moms tend to grab you and scream and want to kiss you. You gotta watch out for the moms.
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I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
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I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .
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There’s a lot of dirty theology out there, the religious counterpart to dirty politics and dirty business, I suppose. You might call it spiritual pornography—a kind of for-profit exploitative nakedness. It’s found in many of the same places as physical pornography (the Internet and cable TV for starters), and it promises similar things: instant intimacy, fantasy and make-believe, private voyeurism and vicarious experience, communion without commitment. That’s certainly not what we’re after in these pages. No, we’re after a lost treasure as old as the story of the Garden of Eden: the...
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Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.
