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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.

Gertrude Stein

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
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Depend Different Oneself See Time
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Country Generosity Important Yourself
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Beside Knowledge Literature
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Appearance Choice Dance Yourself
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Appearance Complete Creation Generation Himself
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint

You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.

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