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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

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
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
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Emotional Feeling Literature Sentence
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
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Defeat Lose Motivational Win
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
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
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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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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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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