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“C'etait un jour de fete. Mais l'haine se repete. Laissez pas la peur dominer le coeur, Si on veut que l'amour soit vainqueur”

Source: L'Amante de Victor Hugo

“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn't known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved…”

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear”

Years Long Written Minutes Paper Years Ago Filled Disappear Thirty Abandoned Long Ago Yards Masterpiece Dungeons Handwriting Bastille

Book:Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

“[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'”

Firsts Looks Hands Law Used Novel Wife Feet Research Tools Historical Eight My Wife Instance Online Bookstores Wilson Encyclopedia Second Hand Certitude Historical Novels Bastille

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.”

Ifs Way Want Said Truth Beautiful Imagination Liberty Wall Spring Hundred Paint Landscape Autobiography Wintertime Beautiful Landscapes Bastille

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!”

Ifs Writing Has Beens Feelings Light Hours Dark My Own Rooms Successful Teaching Havens Sticks Fingers Prisoner Exposed Clothings Plates Elderly Dark Room Faust Bastille

Author:Bret Harte

“I like a little bit of everything. I think I'll put on Guns 'N' Roses or Rolling Stones any day. But recently I like a band called Bastille, or The Weeknd I'm a big fan of as well.”

Thinking Wells Littles Bigs Bits Fans Band Little Bit Gun Stones Rose Rolling Rolling Stones Guns N Roses Bastille

Author:Steven R. McQueen

“Most of the crew were staying in Monaco. But my family and I were actually staying in Nice because I had my whole family there and we wanted a little more space and to stay in a hotel. The truth is we were asleep [when the attack Bastille Day terror happened] and woke up the next morning to it and it was obviously horrific. And then the idea of going out and filming, it just felt so stupid to be working the next day and pretending that everything's cool when you're making some frivolous thing.”

“I was in New York 9/11. Mark's [Wahlberg] from Boston, flew there immediately after. I was in Nice Bastille Day when the truck drove through and killed all these people. It's the new reality, unfortunately. The idea of trying to explore how we process this kind of event, how we survive emotionally, what we tell our kids: That was the movie [Patriots Day] we wanted to make.”

People Trying Kind Ideas Reality Kids Wanted Process Nice Events New York Mark Patriot Truck Boston Flew Patriot Day Bastille

Author:Peter Berg

“I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven.”

Knows Home Class Clean Ovens Bastille

Book:Holidays on Ice

Source: Holidays on Ice

“Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.”

Trying Keep Trying Inconvenient Bastille

Book:The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

Source: The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

“What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.”

Mean Revolution Citizens Active Phrases French Revolution Bastille

Author:Camille Desmoulins

“He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world.”

Ifs World Doe Law Justice Responsibility Break Revolution Accounts Killing Careful Deny Illegal New World September August Refrain Legislators Bastille

Author:Hilary Mantel

“The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward.”