Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEINIs it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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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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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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