Eugene Ionesco Quotes

All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.

Eugene Ionesco

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• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

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• People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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• When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
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• I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Always
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• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

  

  Maya Angelou
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  • Written
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• The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

  

  Eric Brown
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• I've always written down how I feel.

  

  Adele
  • Always
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• Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
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  • Way
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• Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

  

  E. L. James
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  • Written
  • Negotiation

• All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Simple
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  • Investigation

• Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten

  

  Daniel Shipley
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• I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

  

  Alicia Keys
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• What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

  

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• Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.

  

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• Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Games
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  • Investigation

• The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

  

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  • Light
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• I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing done between two men or two women that is, by any objective standard, different from that which is done between a man and a woman.

  

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  • Men
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• All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Written
  • Investigation
  • Greece