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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

Gertrude Stein

Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
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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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself
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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Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
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
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
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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Argument Believe Breathe Defend Help Myself
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Close Firm Greatness Myself Notice Portrait Writing

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