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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Critic Describe Prescribe Should

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You can only predict things after they have happened.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: After Happened Only Predict Things You

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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Before Between Despair God Great Great One His Place Shakespeare Us

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Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Been Everything Will

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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Expression Indispensable Like Needs Revolution Revolutions Spiritual Vital

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A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Civil Jokes Make Servant

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Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language but in their behavior as well.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Abandoned Am Because Behavior Characters Contradict Contradictions Contradictory Criticism Essay Full Inventing Language Only Perhaps Supposed Theater Various Well Write You Yourself I Am

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All theatre is absurd.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Absurd Theatre

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Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Conform Man Refuses Who Woe

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Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Absurd Actions Become Cut His Lost Man Metaphysical Off Religious Roots Senseless Transcendental Useless

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: November 26th, 1912

Died: March 28th, 1994

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