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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."

"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."
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"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"


"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."


"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."


"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."


"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."


"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
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