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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.

Gertrude Stein

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
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
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
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Change Money Yourself
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
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
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Myself Nature Sight View
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
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
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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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
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
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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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
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing

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