"If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low."

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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

#Lows Quotes #Mockery Quotes

“When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'”
“The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.”
“While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.”
“I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.”
“The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.”
“Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.”
“Snarky, sexy and so much fun. Sugar Jamison is sure to be a hit!.”
“Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.”

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