Jean Genet
Jean Genet
Jean Genet19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids and The Screens...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 December 1910
CountryFrance
fighting past mad
The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
blood tears body
Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!
suicide suicidal lines
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
dream men order
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
men solitude world
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude
eye gay lgbt
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
night hours dove
It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
artist solitude moral
Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.
pimp
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
dream would-be youth
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
song mouths body
on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
men spy lenses
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.
men justice triggers
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
gun power shadow
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.