Action Quotes

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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and ...more

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We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

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We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.

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How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.

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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

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…the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something believed in with conviction or seen w...more

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I resign, the evening seemed to say, as it paled and faded above the battlements and prominences, moulded, pointed, of hotel, flat, and block of shops...more

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Is it not possible — I often wonder — that thingswe have felt with great intensity have anexperience independent of our minds; are in factstill in exi...more

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Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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But love – don’t we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It’s only a story one makes up in one’s mind about another per...more

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The nights now are full of wind and destruction; the trees plunge and bend and their leaves fly helter skelter until the lawn is plastered with them a...more

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(...) Sir Boris had fought and killed the Paynim; Sir Gawain, the Turk; Sir Miles, the Pole; Sir Andrew, the Frank; Sir Richard, the Austrian; Sir Jor...more

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A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he ha...more

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept the human shape and in ...more

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Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotio...more

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It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical...more

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As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of the stranges...more

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

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Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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Your image has receded till it is like the thinnest shadow of the old moon... a thin silver edge appeared, and now you hang like a sickle over my life...more

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While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way u...more

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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among them.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

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Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic. He...more