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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

Gertrude Stein

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Genius Time Work Yourself
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Business Important Yourself
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Feeling Kind Live Old Silly Yourself
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Appearance Complete Creation Generation Himself
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
You attract what you need like a lover.
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Attraction Lover Need Yourself
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
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
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Extraordinary Family Forget Yourself
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
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
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
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

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