List of Jean Genet Quotes

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Jean Genet
Total Quotes 69
One can hear all that's going on in the street. which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.
Mean House Streets
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
Men Justice Triggers
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
Body Adrift Cocaine
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. but when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Ghetto Wind People
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
Facts Strange Share
First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! you .... oh! all right, mix your muck with mine. mix it! mix your rags with my tatters! mix it all up.
Rags Firsts Mines
She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . .
Sweet Princess Numbers
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
Men Evil May
I don't want to disappear.
Want Disappear
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Lying Names Giving
I decided to be what crime made of me.
Crime Made Decided
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. they live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when i speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.
Book Character Variation
  • Born: December 19, 1910
  • Died: April 15, 1986
  • Occupation: Novelist
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