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Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too... by Stephen Colbert

Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.

Stephen Colbert
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The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.

Thomas Huxley
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Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oe... by Tom Robbins

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

Tom Robbins
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

Umberto Eco
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My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.

Vivien Leigh
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