Eugene Ionesco Quotes
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.
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Endurance is mind over matter.
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'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.
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Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.
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Dominus virtutum Has gathered together those that were in slavery, And before I existed He had perceived me. May I be ardently devoted to God! And before I desire the end of existence, And before the broken foam shall come upon my lips, And before I become connected with wooden boards, May there be festivals to my soul!
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.
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At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
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Lo importante y lo no importante no son iguales sólo en sus comienzos.
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A cripple in the way out-travels a footman or a post out of the way.
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True experiences of angels always lead to a greater unity.
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Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
