Jean Anouilh
Playwright
1910-06-23
Books by Jean Anouilh
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Becket
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Pièces brillantes. L'invitation au château. Colombe. La répétition
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Quotes by Jean Anouilh
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Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
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I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
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I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
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I like reality. It tastes like bread.
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Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
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Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
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The object of art is to give life a shape.
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Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.
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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
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Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.
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God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
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Everything ends this way in France-everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs-everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
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