To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company? — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“If we want to lower ourselves to the level of the public there are two things we can do for them--and which are done… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite. — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“Writing a part with the talents of a particular actor in mind is the method most likely to result in ephemeral plays: for, once… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.” — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
