"Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet."

-- Theophile Gautier

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“I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.”
“What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?”
“Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.”
“I shoot for 'Extra' three times a week, and that's great for Las Vegas, too. In addition to interviewing stars who are here for shows, parties and premieres, I'll also get peoples' reactions to different news items and topical gossip.”
“We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.”
“Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.”
“The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.”
“There might be a few things in a woman's life that a romantic interlude won't cure, but I don't know any of them.”

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