"When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting."

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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

Literature1899–1986

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"I don't understand acting. Sometimes I only understand it while I'm doing it, and sometimes not even then. You cannot study acting. You can get new tools to use..., but you can't become something by s…"

— Nastassja Kinski

Entertainment1961

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"It is very hard to write this way, beginning things backward, and the author hopes the reader will realize this and not grudge this little word of explanation. I know I would be very glad to read anyt…"

— Ernest Hemingway

Literature1899–1961

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"It was strange going back to Spain again: I had never expected to be allowed to return to the country that I loved more than any other except my own and I would not return so long as any of my friends…"

— Ernest Hemingway

Literature1899–1961

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