To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
More Quotes from Jean Genet:
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning my exile.Jean Genet
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
Jean Genet
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean Genet
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
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.
Jean Genet
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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