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"Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for."
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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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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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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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"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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"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged."
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"I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe."
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"Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act."
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"I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act."
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"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."
Road
"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
Motivational
"Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life."
Life
"I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature."
Talent
"John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university."
Vision
"Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing."
Life
"And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care."
Love
"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
Desire
"The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer."
Education
"Nobody does anything for one reason."
Reason
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