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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Gertrude Stein

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
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way
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
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Myself Nature Sight View
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
If 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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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
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
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
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
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question Yourself
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Business Important Yourself

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