A Quote by Mark Ravenhill
Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels familiar.
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I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.
Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!
After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.
"You're a bitter man," said Candide.
"That's because I've lived," said Martin.
Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world rather than some other.
I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.
Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture.
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every single sentence in Voltaire seems to advance the story, and yet stand alone as a sound-bite.
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