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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Gertrude Stein

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
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
Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Poem Time
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
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
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
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question Yourself
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Depend Different Oneself See Time
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint

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