Quote by Émile Zola Download Open image ““that they were often as thrilled by trash as by an acknowledged masterpiece (32)”” — Émile Zola ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We cross paths with human beings moment by moment and seldom stop to marvel at these feeling, thinking, acting, doing, creating, capable-of-loving masterpieces. They… — Tim Hast Copy Share Image
“For God sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what. I write… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it… — Dave Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“When one's thoughts and experience have not reached a certain point for reading a masterpiece, the masterpiece will leave only a bad flavor on… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It’s not enough to be the best. You also have to be seen by the most. A masterpiece painting hanging in the storage unit… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Hélène, her eyes once more raised and remote, was deep in a dream. She was Lady Rowena, she was in love, with the deep… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“he was carried aloft, for the moment, on one of those great waves of hope from which he was usually plunged deep into the… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“Lastly, I accuse the first court-martial of having violated the law by condemning an accused person on one document kept secret, and I accuse… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“vexation, yet filled with unconscious regret for the terrible unknown things that might have, but had not, happened (23)” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“Good gracious!" she exclaimed, "she's been more than an hour in there! When the priests set about cleansing her of her sins, the choir-boys… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing for the Rougon family to… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
