Dry Guillotine is the English translation of a French phrase la guillotine sèche which was prisoner slang for the Devil's Island Penal colony at French Guiana. It is also the title of several articles by various authors and most notably, a very influential and successful book by former prisoner #46,635, René Belbenoit.
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Famous quotes containing the words dry and/or guillotine:
“tea, a decoction that enlarges the spleen and warpest the brain, or lightly floating the spirit for a while at last lands it in a dry place.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.”
—Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)