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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Gertrude Stein

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
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
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
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
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
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
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
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Audacity Life Love Share Skill
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
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Business Important Yourself
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Death Lost War

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