"The pimp has a grin, never a smile."

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Source : Jean Genet (1994). “The Balcony”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Jean Genet

“Globalization not only has lost its promise but it is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, indeed, as the banner of World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, “Another world is possible.””

Source : Walden Bello's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.
“I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.”
“Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.”

Source : "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work". Book by Shawn Achor, 2010.
“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”
“I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.”
“Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.”
“Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.”
“When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.”

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