You have to know what you want to get it.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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