Like dreams, farces show
Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes. Eric Bentley
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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes. Eric Bentley
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer’s contribution seems not only absorbed but translated…. One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce. Eric Bentley
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce. Emile M. Cioran
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public. Elena Kagan
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. Edward McKendree Bounds
Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very … Read more
It is. But not as hard as farce. Edmund Gwenn
Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling. Edie Sedgwick
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. Francois Rabelais
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. Francois Rabelais