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Gertrude Stein

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Declare Myself Patience Patient
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
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Born Country Home Myself
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Day Exception Kindness
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves
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
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
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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Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning

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