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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

Gertrude Stein

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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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
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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Beginning Believe Live Machine Natural Reality Reason Science Thinking
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner
Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Listening Myself Self Love
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
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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Declare Myself Patience Patient
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Emotional Feeling Literature Sentence
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Myself Stranger Way Writing
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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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Animal Dog Existence Myself
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Existence Place
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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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Country Generosity Important Yourself
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
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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Answer Philosophy
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Better Ground Near Sight Walk Yourself
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction

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