"I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul."

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Source : "J'accuse! (I Accuse!)". Open letter to French President Félix Faure, published in "L'Aurore" [The Dawn], January 13, 1898.

Emile Zola

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“With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.”
“Youâ€™re too visible, Albert,â€ Hadrian explained. â€œCanâ€™t afford to have our favorite noble hauled to some dungeon where they cut off your eyelids or pull off your fingernails until you tell them what weâ€™re up to.â€ â€œBut if they torture me, and I donâ€™t know the plan, how will I save myself?â€ â€œIâ€™m sure theyâ€™ll believe you after the fourth nail or so,â€ Royce said with a wicked grin.”
“Medication without explanation is obscene.”
“We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.”
“Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each otherâ€™s hearts. I guess thereâ€™s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. Youâ€™re always home.”
“Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.”
“Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.”
“I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.”

Source : "Charlie Watts's Guide to Dressing Like a Gentleman". Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. June 29, 2012.

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