“None of us would have written as we do without surrealism and dadaism. By liberating the language, those movements paved the way for us.”

—  Eugéne Ionesco

The Paris Review interview (1984)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "None of us would have written as we do without surrealism and dadaism. By liberating the language, those movements pave…" by Eugéne Ionesco?
Eugéne Ionesco photo
Eugéne Ionesco 59
Romanian playwright 1909–1994

Related quotes

Edmund White photo

“Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.”

Edmund White (1940) American novelist and LGBT essayist

New York City (p. 284).
States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980)

Jane Roberts photo

“Telepathy accounts for the usefulness of spoken language. Without telepathy no language would be intelligible.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

Session 57, Page 119
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 2

Julius Malema photo

“Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. … White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. … What we do with it is none of your business. Solomon Mahlangu died for this land.”

Julius Malema (1981) South African political activist

On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ (16 April 2016)

Pierce Brown photo

“Yes. I'm alone.
I would have thought there to be worse fates than this, but now I know there are none. Man is no island. We need those who love us. We need those who hate us. We need others to tether us to life, to give us a reason to live, to feel.”

Pierce Brown book Morning Star

Source: Morning Star (2016), Ch. 1: Only the Dark

John Buchan photo

“We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.”

John Buchan book The Path of the King

Prologue
The Path of the King (1921)

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson photo

“Cats are contented with their lot, with or without our approval. They have less need of us than we would like. It would flatter us to think that cats cannot survive without us, that they need us emotionally as well as materially, whereas in fact they probably do not need us in either sphere. This wounds our vanity. We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.”

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1941) American writer and activist

Source: The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats (2002), Ch. 1

Francois Mauriac photo

“We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.”

Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author
Edward Gordon Craig photo

“I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.”

Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966) Modernist stage designer and theatre director

As quoted in On the Art of the Theatre http://books.google.pl/books?id=ZQv533ZK6IQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (2009), p. 53.
Quote

“Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”

J. G. Ballard book Crash

"Introduction" to the French edition (1974) of Crash (1973); reprinted in Re/Search no. 8/9 (1984)
Crash (1973)

Related topics