Quote by Alfred Jarry
To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea be

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

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We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. – Alfred Jarry

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

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

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Im an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. – Johnny Depp

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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Why cant somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Tradition

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. – G. K. Chesterton

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