Alfred Jarry Quotes

• God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

  Alfred Jarry

  God, Zero, Humorous

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

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• Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

  Alfred Jarry

  Communication, Talking, Mind

  "That Ubu that you do" by Mike Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.

  Alfred Jarry

  Fighting, Numbers, Psychology

  Alfred Jarry (1961). “Ubu Roi”, p.175, New Directions Publishing

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• To be weird! That is my goal!

  Alfred Jarry

  Goal

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• I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

  Alfred Jarry

  Dying, Last Words, Please

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• Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

  Alfred Jarry

  Laughter, Discovery, Born

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• The applause of silence.
  is the only kind that counts.

  Alfred Jarry

  Silence, Kind, Applause

  Katharine Noel, Alfred Jarry (2007). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr

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• God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

  Alfred Jarry

  Zero, Distance, Infinity

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• The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

  Alfred Jarry

  Passion, Character, Theatre

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

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• It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

  Alfred Jarry

  Beauty, Monsters, Elements

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• Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

  Alfred Jarry

  Light, Dawn, World

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• The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

  Alfred Jarry

  Art, Crocodiles, Art Is

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

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• It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

  Alfred Jarry

  Home, Fire, Joy

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• To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

  Alfred Jarry

  Mean, Ideas, Mad

  Katharine Noel, Alfred Jarry (2007). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr

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• Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

  Alfred Jarry

  Food, Water, Cooking

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• We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

  Alfred Jarry

  Use, Way, Ruins

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• The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

  Alfred Jarry

  Artist, Unique, Theatre

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

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• Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

  Alfred Jarry

  Real, Men, Discipline

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• Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

  Alfred Jarry

  Memories, Duration, Becoming

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr

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• You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

  Alfred Jarry

  Tonight, Ugly, Company

  Alfred Jarry (2007). “The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.

  Alfred Jarry

  Zero, Infinite

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• La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

  Alfred Jarry

  Mediocre

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• Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

  Alfred Jarry

  Thinking, Suffering, Ovation

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