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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Gertrude Stein

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
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Beside Knowledge Literature
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
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
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
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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Attraction Evitable Finding Greatness Lover Need Yourself
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Genius Time Work Yourself
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
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Day Exception Kindness
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
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
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time

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