The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today
More Quotes from Jean Cocteau:
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.Jean Cocteau
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Jean Cocteau
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
Jean Cocteau
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
Jean Cocteau
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