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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
"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."
"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"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."
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
"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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"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."
"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit."
"We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history."
"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."
"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
"The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion."
"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone."
"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions."
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