It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINHow do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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