It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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This joy you feel is life.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Romance is everything.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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