Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINIf the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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.
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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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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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One must dare to be happy.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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