French - Dramatist | November 26, 1909 - March 28, 1994
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.
Eugene Ionesco
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I have the vanity to think that every play I have written is different from the previous ones. Yet, even though they are written in a different way, they all deal with the same themes, the same preoccupations. 'Exit the King' is also 'The Bald Soprano.'
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Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.
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Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.
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My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is needed for people to watch my theatre is a freshness and openness of mind.
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A man with a soul is not like every other man.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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You can only predict things after they have happened.
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We have not the time to take our time.
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Living is abnormal.
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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
GodGreatPlaceDespairUsBetween
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