Eugene Ionesco Quotes
For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.
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I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
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I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
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In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."
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Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.
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If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
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My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
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Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
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You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.
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Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.
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Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.
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Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.
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He buries gold who hides the truth.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.
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Firelight and Polly had lent a momentary charm to the parlor but now, looking up at the portrait, he was aware of having passed under the shadow of a dark hand. Emma, he realized, lived under it always. Her parlor was her past, and Isaac's, and if Issac in tearing himself out of its grip had torn himself too he was better off with his asthma and his nerves and his eccentricity than Emma. Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.
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Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
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For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.
