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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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"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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"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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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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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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"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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"I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts."
Motivation
"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."
Fame
"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't."
Romance
"I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute."
Social
"Character is plot, plot is character."
Writing
"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."
Writing
"Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person."
Writing
"I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death."
Emotion
"Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen."
Creativity
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
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