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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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

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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesnt see Negroes hanging from its branches. – 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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He that seeks trouble never misses. – English Proverb

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

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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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