"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."

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"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."

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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."

Christopher Durang, American Playwright

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"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good."

Pythagoras, Greek Mathematician

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"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."

Anthony Hopkins, Welsh Actor

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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

Henry Miller, American Author

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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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

William James, American Philosopher

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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."

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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

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"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."

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"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."

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"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing."

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"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."

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"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."

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"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."

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