"I belong to that generation who, as students,……" — Michel Foucault
"I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance."
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Michel Foucault
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109 Quotes by Michel Foucault
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of…
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack…
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Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on…
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one…
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in…
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I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who…
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What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us…
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is…
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If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that…
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a…
— Samuel Beckett
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Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the…
— Barney Rosset
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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
— John Hurt
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I…
— Harold Pinter
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Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not…
— Anthony Burgess
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Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used…
— Barney Rosset
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
— Val Kilmer
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Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut…
— John Lahr
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I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have…
— John Larroquette
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All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and…
— Dylan Moran
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Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working…
— Peter O'Toole
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