English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Jean Genet Quotes

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.

Jean Genet

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

A. A. Milne quote: "It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people..."
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all. A. A. Milne
Who could ever reckon up the damage done to love and friendship and all hopes of happiness by a surfeit or depletion of this or that neurotransmitter? And who will ever find a morality, an ethics down among the enzymes and amino acids when the general taste is for looking in the other direction? Ian Mcewan
Louis Dudek quote: "What is forgiven is usually well remembered."
What is forgiven is usually well remembered. Louis Dudek
Even when I'm alone I have real good company? dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships? and nice, jolly little times with people. L. M. Montgomery
I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different. Jon Crosby
Horace Mann quote: "Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power."
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. Horace Mann
And of course she enjoyed life immensely. It was her nature to enjoy. Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything. If you walked with her in Hyde Park now it was a bed of tulips, now a child in a perambulator, now some absurd little drama she made up on the spur of the moment. Virginia Woolf
Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later. Douglas Adams
Mark Twain quote: "To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide..."
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. Mark Twain
Glenn Danzig quote: "You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect..."
You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously. Glenn Danzig
As the message drained away Vimes stared at the opposite wall, in which the door now opened, after a cursory knock, to reveal the steward bearing that which is guaranteed to frighten away all nightmares, to wit, a cup of hot tea.** The sound of the gentle rattle of china cup on china saucer drives away all demons, a little-known fact. Terry Prachett
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "What does seem important? Bargaining in good faith with destiny."
What does seem important? Bargaining in good faith with destiny. Kurt Vonnegut
James Broughton quote: "I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless."
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. James Broughton
Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles. Carol P. Christ
Jimmy Greaves quote: "Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the..."
Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom. Jimmy Greaves