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Alfred Jarry Biography

Alfred Jarry (French: [al.fʁɛd ʒa.ʁi]; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896). He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.

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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

Art, Art Is, Crocodiles, Stuffed, Work

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

Company, Exceptionally, Tonight, Ugly

I am dying. Please. . . bring me a toothpick.

Bring, Dying, Last Words, Please, Toothpick

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.

Artist, Author, Idiots, Theatre, Unique, Virtue

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

God, Humorous, Point, Tangential, Zero

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.

Absinthe, Cooking, Food, Liquid, Poison, Water

The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.

Applause, Kind, Silence

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Force, Ovation, Suffering, Suffers, Think, Thinking

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

Breaking, Dawn, Light, World

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

Constitutes, Discipline, Men, Real, Undisciplined

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

Bedroom, Fire, Home, Joy, Ownership, Pistol

God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

Distance, Infinity, Shortest, Zero

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.

Character, Complete, Enough, Passion, Passions, Theatre

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

Beauty, Call, Conventional, Elements, Monsters

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.

Evolution, Ideas, Mad, Mean, State, Tradition

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