Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINWhat is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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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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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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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 is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Romance is everything.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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