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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

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 inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Attraction Evitable Finding Greatness Lover Need Yourself
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nature Reduce Science
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
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
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
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
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
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
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Emotional Feeling Literature Sentence
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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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
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 nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking

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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