Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers
Source: The Three Musketeers
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3090
“A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.”
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
"A Wife's Confession"
“Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.”
Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
Source: Le Naturalisme Au Theatre
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang , p. 55.
Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
Cited as attributed to Zola in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations : Cutting Comments on Burning Issues (1992) by Charles Bufe, p. 183, but no earlier citation has yet been located, and this appears to be very similar to remarks often attributed to Denis Diderot: "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" and "Let us strangle the last king with the guts of the last priest" — these are loosely derived from a statement Diderot actually did make: "his hands would plait the priest's entrails, for want of a rope, to strangle kings." <br class="br">This quote appeared in soviet popular-scientific work "Satellite atheist" (Sputnik ateista) http://books.google.ru/books/about/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0.html?id=Lq9AAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y (1959), p. 491. <br class="br">Disputed
Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
As quoted in Writers on Writing (1986) by Jon Winokur.
Variant: If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
Emile Zola book Au Bonheur des Dames
Source: The Ladies' Paradise
“Never confuse movement with action.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
As quoted by Marlene Dietrich, who added "In those five words he gave me a whole philosophy." Pt. 1, Ch. 1
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Variant: Never mistake motion for action.
“All thinking men are atheists.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 2
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
From a set of "rules for life" sent to publisher Charles Scribner IV; quoted in Scribner's memoir In the Company of Writers (New York: Scribner, 1991), p. 64 https://books.google.com/books?id=yYdHGtlgIsYC&pg=PA64&dq=hemingway+%22rules+for+life%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-zvyfgNDMAhUJ_mMKHU6zDrYQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%20%22rules%20for%20life%22&f=false
“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Source: The Sun Also Rises