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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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"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."
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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
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"Think before you act and act on what you believe."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"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."
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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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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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"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
Fiction
"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."
Life
"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."
Experience
"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."
Identity
"The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history."
History
"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
Personality
"To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement."
Character
"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
Act
"Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune."
Fortune
"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
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