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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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"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."
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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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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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"If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity."
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"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."
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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."
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"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing."
Woman
"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."
World
"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."
Time
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
Television
"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."
Act
"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
Art
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
Work
"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."
Research
"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."
Impression
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
Opportunity
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