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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
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"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."
"I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth."
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"I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared."
"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."
"But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act."
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"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."
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"It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history."
"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
"Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey."
"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
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