Eugene Ionesco Quotes
A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.
Quotes to Explore
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
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I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.
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It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
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I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.
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The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.
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The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.
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Greaness IS for ALL of US. We just need to keep Believing in ourselves and follow our dreams.
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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
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One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.
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The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.
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A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.
