Play The Fool Quote by Chris Kraus Download Open image ““To initiate something is to play the fool.”” — Chris Kraus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Play The Fool
“And it is seldom easy to convince a person that he is playing the fool.” — Donna Lynn Hess Copy Share Image
“The Fool is a great template for the lead character in a story, untarnished by what is to come, eager for adventure.” — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
“Some said we were just teaching people to fool themselves, but then again, when were people ever not fooling themselves?” — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You Like It,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement? — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary… — Chris Kraus Copy Share
“Back to the 1st Person: I'd even made up art theories about my inability to use it. That I'd chosen film and theater, two artforms built entirely on collisions, that only reach their meanings through collision, because I couldn't ever believe in the integrity/supremacy of the 1st Person (my own). That in order to write 1st Person narrative there needs… — Chris Kraus Copy Share
“We're touched by the nostalgia, seeing Walter at the center of our extended European family but our smarter selves find greater satisfaction knowing history… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation? — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Jerome doesn't have a clue. He in fact avoids the poets, with their petty feuds and righteous poverty. Endlessly competitive and introspective, they live… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that I was suffering from the dizziness of contradictions: the only pleasure that remains once you've decided you know better than the world. Accepting contradictions means not believing any more in the primacy of "true feeling." Everything is true and simultaneously. It's why I hate Sam Shepard and all your True West stuff - it's like… — Chris Kraus Copy Share
“We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.” — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our own debasement? Why do women always have to come clean? The magnificence of Genet’s last great work, The Prisoner of Love, lies in his willingness to be wrong: a seedy old white guy jerking off on the rippling muscles of the Arabs and Black… — Chris Kraus Copy Share
“What's the matter?" you asked, seizing an idea. "Did I burst your balloon - destroy the fantasy?" I struggled for a way to answer… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“He is a romantic, a dreamer, and never afraid to play the fool. He is fearless and reckless and brave and I love him… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus! — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
Ladies, some guys are always casting for someone to play the fool, make sure you're not auditioning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
That scared has left a bad effect towards our love! Wish I can find were I went wrong and fix it, before it become… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Hard times only make us closer. To play the fool I'm not. We gone to far to stop cause I promise that it would… — Letoya Luckett Copy Share Image
