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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

Other quotes by Alfred Jarry

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

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Beauty
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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

Category:
Destruction, Destructive
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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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strength
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Alfred Jarry
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Tradition
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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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Tradition

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Tradition

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Tradition

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

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You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. Im not worried if Im using four different cheeses and its high in fat. Its real food. Thats whats more important. – Tom Colicchio

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