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Antonin Artaud

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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
ANTONIN ARTAUD Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depressio...
ANDREW SOLOMON When the insane people start the chatter, there's no way to win that fight. It's literally l...
JENNIFER KONNER All that chatter you hear from yuppie parents at the playground about how expensive it is to 'do...
TUCKER CARLSON Without sacrifice, true love is incomprehensible.
TOBA BETA 'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.
AIDEN WILSON TOZER It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an i...
RENE DAUMAL Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's g...
JAMES BROWN It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up ever...
KEVIN KLINE A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or wha...
SUFJAN STEVENS Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who c...
ZACH GALLIGAN When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from i...
ANTONIN ARTAUD If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide...
ANTONIN ARTAUD You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, yo...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
ANTONIN ARTAUD The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete lan...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything
ANTONIN ARTAUD Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of...
ANTONIN ARTAUD However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itsel...
ANTONIN ARTAUD With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, a...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find t...
ANTONIN ARTAUD But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about dif...
ANTONIN ARTAUD And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted s...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNA...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath...
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothe...
ANTONIN ARTAUD So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of fol...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psy...
ANTONIN ARTAUD I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know t...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of yo...
ANTONIN ARTAUD We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being
ANTONIN ARTAUD I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this-...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD When we speak the word ''life',' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it fr...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all ho...
ANTONIN ARTAUD We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
ANTONIN ARTAUD Those who live, live off the dead.
ANTONIN ARTAUD I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of you...
ANTONIN ARTAUD When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know...
ANTONIN ARTAUD [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman
a misunderstood genius
whose idea
shining in his head
f...
ANTONIN ARTAUD But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible �...
M.M. KAYE In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line b...
ANDREW SOLOMON Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for...
JIM HARRISON Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
PHILIP MASSINGER When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich
FRENCH PROVERB I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.
DOLLY PARTON Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't...
KRIS CARR All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously in...
RUDOLF STEINER What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .
JORGE AMADO Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
BARRY DILLER I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokes...
MARIA BAMFORD Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just a...
DAVID MITCHELL There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
BILL GRIFFITH "Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.
AIDEN WILSON TOZER "Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith
AIDEN TOZER "Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith
AIDEN WILSON TOZER Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.
GLORIA SWANSON It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be...
VINCENT CANBY We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the regio...
ETHAN COEN The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep w...
CAROL ANN DUFFY Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there...
LARRY WALL The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth...
RENE DENFELD Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back ...
PETER MULLAN It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it&#...
SAMUEL BARNETT It's funny because I want my teeth to be, like, neon 'Real Housewives' white, but mine h...
CHRISTINE TEIGEN It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is a...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY All history is incomprehensible without Christ
ERNEST RENAN All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
ERNEST RENAN In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language a...
EDWARD SAPIR The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications net...
JIM CLARK All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You'...
LESLIE MANN My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good...
JIM HARRISON The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors be...
EDWARD SAPIR The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who ...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO Antonin Scalia was witty, warm, funny, and full of life. He was not only one of the most important j...
CASS SUNSTEIN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
GELETT BURGESS Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
FRANK GELETT BURGESS Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
(FRANK) GELETT BURGESS "Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true
FRANZ KAFKA A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound ...
THE EDGE The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is ...
DEREK WALCOTT It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BONO The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her...
C. JOYBELL C.

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