"She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership)."

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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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"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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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."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."

Henry Miller, American Author

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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."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."

James Shirley, English Dramatist

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"East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State."

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"If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry."

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"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

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"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."

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"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

"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."

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."

"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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"East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State."

"When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard."

"Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark."

"Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence."

"It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York."

"If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry."

"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate."

"If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry."

"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."