"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim."

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"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

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"He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."

Max Baer, American Athlete

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"All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it."

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"It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one."

Alice Cooper, American Musician

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"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."

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"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged."

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"I write, but I also act."

Eric Bogosian, American Actor

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"I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared."

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"At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them."

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"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."

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"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

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"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."

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"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it."

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"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people."

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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

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"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy."

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"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."

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"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

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