Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuc...
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“That's a beautiful speech, but nobody's listening. Let's go.”
Source: Ubu Roi
“Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.”
“La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.”
“It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom”
“The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.”
Source: Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor
“You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?”
Source: The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained
“Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.”
“God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.”
Source: Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor
“Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.”
Source: Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor
Source: Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor
Source: Selected works of Alfred Jarry
Source: Ubu Roi
Source: Selected works of Alfred Jarry
“The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.”
Source: Selected works of Alfred Jarry