Quote by Jean Genet
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fo

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent — or they themselves — was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible. – Jean Genet

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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet

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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadnt had an audience, and lines to speak? – Jean Genet

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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. – Jean Genet

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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They dont know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. – Anthony Burgess

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Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways? – William Shakespeare

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He that seeks trouble never misses. – English Proverb

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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. – Rudyard Kipling

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The greater part of my official time is spent on investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn, and each stationary. – An English Lord Chief Justice, quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers,

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