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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Gertrude Stein

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Born Country Home 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
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
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
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Insist Perspective Repeat
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
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
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
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 way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

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