"Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime."

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Source : Charles Ludlam, Steven Samuels (1992). “Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam”

Charles Ludlam

#Years Quotes #Sublime Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes

“You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.”
“He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did.”
“I never intended to make art.”
“There are so many stories that need to be told and are not being told. We tend to want to put things in boxes: "This is a memoir about a Muslim," or "This is a memoir about a woman or a normal personal." There's a certain story that assumes to be universal. Everyone else is ethnic fiction. Anyone can aspire to universality.”
“Never be too absorbed by your own ambitions to encourage those of your family.”
“Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.”

Source : Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason (1851). “The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.294
“Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the music that refreshes the church and makes her heart exceeding glad.”
“Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.”

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