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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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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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