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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Gertrude Stein

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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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Poem Time
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Common Information Internet Lose Sense Yourself
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
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
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
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing
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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Brilliant Care Lifestyle Live Place Strange Yourself
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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Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
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
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Myself Nature Sight View

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