“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!”

—  Emile Zola

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.

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