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“Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.”

Quote by Eugene Ionesco

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Eugene Ionesco was a renowned French playwright known for his absurdist plays. His works often explore the absurdity and meaninglessness of human existence, as well as the alienation of society and culture. Ionesco's dramatic style is unique, with concise and poetic language, which has had a profound impact on modern drama. more

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“I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.”

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Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.”

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.”

Feels Wells God God Is Dead

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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.”

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Book:Amedee, The New Tenant, Victims of Duty: Three Plays

Source: Amedee, The New Tenant, Victims of Duty: Three Plays

“Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.”

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Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.”

Book:Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World

Source: Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World

“I am not capitulating.”

Book:Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World

Source: Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World

“I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.”

Dream Fall Answers Absolutes Revealing

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be.”

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Author:Norman Mailer

“Even an evil man can have principleshe can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.”

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Book:Conversations with Norman Mailer

Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer