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"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"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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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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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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"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."
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"I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act."
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"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."
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"Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon."
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"Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on."
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"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
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"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."
People
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
Truth
"They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
Advice
"People change and forget to tell each other."
Change
"God forgives those who invent what they need."
God
"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."
Time
"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."
Courage
"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
Success
"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."
God
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