For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINArt isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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