Eugene Ionesco Quotes
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
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Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.
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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.
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Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
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There are so many things I could say about you but none of them can describe you fully. You are the beauty I was waiting for. The love of my life of whom I dreamed day and night.
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It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.
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I fight for perfection.
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For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.
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The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.
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All the world's a stage.
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Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
