The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots. Alfred Jarry More Quotes by Alfred Jarry More Quotes From Alfred Jarry God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. Alfred Jarry zero humorous god It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence. Alfred Jarry psychology fighting numbers Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind. Alfred Jarry communication mind talking I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick. Alfred Jarry last-words please dying The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. Alfred Jarry passion theatre character To be weird! That is my goal! Alfred Jarry goal The work of art is a stuffed crocodile. Alfred Jarry crocodiles art-is art It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom Alfred Jarry fire home joy God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity. Alfred Jarry distance zero infinity It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. Alfred Jarry elements monsters beauty Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory. Alfred Jarry born laughter discovery Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world. Alfred Jarry light dawn world The applause of silence. Alfred Jarry applause silence kind 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 and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it. Alfred Jarry cooking food water Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY. Alfred Jarry duration becoming memories You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company? Alfred Jarry ugly company tonight To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. Alfred Jarry mad mean ideas Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite. Alfred Jarry infinite zero La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre. Alfred Jarry mediocre Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. Alfred Jarry discipline real men
