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"She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership)."
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"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy."
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"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."
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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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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
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"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."
Act

"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
Nation

"Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life."
Life

"Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States."
Life

"Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky."
Travel

"I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening."
History

"I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art."
Relationship

"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels."
Life

"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."
Action

"As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real."
Health
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