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.
GERTRUDE STEINSuppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Romance is everything.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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