Let me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEINThe reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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