"I have so little control over the act……" — David Rakoff

"I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious."

— David Rakoff

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40 Quotes by David Rakoff

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Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that…
Almost any age is better than twenty-two.
But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming,…
I had a tumor. But it was great.
You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this…
We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.
Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am…
If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is…
Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They…
I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously…
Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.
Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
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
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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