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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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Personal Development
"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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Personal Development
"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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Personal Development
"Think before you act and act on what you believe."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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Personal Development
"I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly."
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Personal Development
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."
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"I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser."
Wisdom
"There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals."
Happiness
"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
Act
"No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong - you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into."
Anxiety
"Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly."
Parenting
"My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy."
Art
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
Writing
"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
Poetry
"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."
Satire
"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."
Marriage
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