"All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones."

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Source : Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

Jean Anouilh

#Names Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Innocence Quotes

“We had a lot to do with Randy being fired. If we were to do a lot better, then it probably wouldn't have happened.”
“The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness.”
“The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.”
“I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.”
“I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I'm coming to believe it's in the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies there.”
“The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions.”
“Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passÃ©. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.
“Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.”

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