"Waiting for Godot has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice."

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Source : "The Uneventful Event". The Irish Times, p. 6, February 18, 1956.

Vivian Mercier

#Play Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.”
“Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.”
“The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.”
“When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.”
“I've always had confidence.”
“Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.166
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”

Source : No Cross, No Crown (1669) See Proverbs 212
“Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.”

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