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Act Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of…
- 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…
- The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of…
- Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a…
- Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
- Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom condition; every act they execute may be their last;…
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- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
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- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
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- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
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- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
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