"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

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"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

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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

Act,

"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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Act, Desire, Man, World

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

Act, Evening, Night, Sleep

"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."

bell hooks, American Critic

Act, Ego, Past, Self

"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

John Updike, American Novelist

Act, Applause, Glory, World

"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

Act,

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Act, Quotation, Words

"I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly."

Alanna Ubach, American Actress

Act, Want

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

William James, American Philosopher

Act, Difference, Will

"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

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Explore more quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

"The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about. Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said; "tout aboutit en un livre, everything ends up in a book. The Greeks speak of generations that will sing; Mallarmé speaks of an object, of a thing among things, a book. But the idea is the same; the idea that we are made for art, we are made for memory, we are made for poetry, or perhaps we are made for oblivion. But something remains, and that something is history or poetry, which are not essentially different."

Philosophy

"And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create a tiger.Oh incompetence! Never do my dreams engender the wild beast I longed for.The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or bird."

Creativity

"From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me."

Motivation

"We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes."

Waiting

"We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods."

Mythology

"Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism."

Reading

"Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction."

Destiny

"There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations."

Literature

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."

Science

"Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists."

Criticism