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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.

Gertrude Stein

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Answer Philosophy
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Close Firm Greatness Myself Notice Portrait Writing
Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Art Nation One Liner
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Feeling Kind Live Old Silly Yourself
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Better Ground Near Sight Walk Yourself
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep

I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.

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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.

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