"The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception."

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Source : "Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly: the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam".

Charles Ludlam

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“I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.”
“It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.”

Source : Leo Strauss (1996). “Spinoza's Critique of Religion”, p.2, University of Chicago Press
“I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.”
“When a guy says, "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," he means "Don't make a fuss over my birthday". When we say "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," we mean "Give me a surprise party. Do something lavish. Just don't tell everyone my age."”
“Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.”
“I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.”
“Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.”
“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”

Source : John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”

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