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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Gertrude Stein

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Extraordinary Inspirational Limitation Yourself
Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Poem Time
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Funny Happiness Money Shop
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
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
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
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
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves
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
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Creation Deep Perspective Position Yourself
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
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Common Information Internet Lose Sense 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
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

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