Jean Genet on sexuality
Jean Genet54 quotes“I’m homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It’s a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.”
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Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
Jean GenetJean Genet Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
Jean GenetJean Genet Creation is not a light-hearted game. The creator commits to a terrible adventure, which is to take up-on himself all of the dangers that his creatures run.
Jean GenetJean Genet The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
Jean GenetJean Genet Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.
Jean GenetJean Genet The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
Jean GenetJean Genet 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 GenetJean Genet On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
Jean GenetJean Genet Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
Jean GenetJean Genet Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
Jean GenetJean Genet I don’t want to disappear.
Jean GenetJean Genet It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
Jean GenetJean Genet Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.
Jean GenetJean Genet To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Jean GenetJean Genet I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
Jean GenetJean Genet Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
Jean GenetJean Genet
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Sexual healing is good for me.
Marvin GayeMarvin Gaye The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don’t know, I’ve always been intrigued by those emotions.
Adrian GostickAdrian Gostick I’m proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It’s just another part of me.
Adam LambertAdam Lambert I’m proud of my sexuality.
Adam LambertAdam Lambert The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan
