"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa."

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Source : "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

Eugene Ionesco

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“You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.”
“I go - I trace depression back to things. So I go, ok, I look back and I say my self-esteem was affected because of my skin and because my family had no money and I was ashamed of how poor I was. And I look at all of that and I was trying to hide myself. And so I felt like I was less than I was. And so that then leads to you being depressed. And I work on these things.”
“You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.”
“If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.”
“I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Iâ€™m not trying to play the guitar. Iâ€™m trying to play music.”
“When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.”
“The progression of a painterâ€™s workâ€¦will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observerâ€¦to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.”

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