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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Gertrude Stein

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Listening Myself Self Love
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Business Important Yourself
Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Poem Time
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
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
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
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nature Reduce Science
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Extraordinary Family Forget Yourself
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
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
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way

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