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In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
Mary A. Ward

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
John Sterling

Instinct is the nose of the mind.
Delphine de Girardin

Instinct is untaught ability.
Alexander Bain

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Henri Matisse

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Henri Bergson

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
Jimmy Buffett

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
Paul Begala

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
David Leavitt


It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.
Stone Gossard

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Thomas Mann

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
Paul Berg

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Charles Alexander Eastman

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore De Balzac

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West

Making movies is all about instinct.
Dino De Laurentiis

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
Muhammed Iqbal

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