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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Gertrude Stein

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
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Gratitude Silence Thankful
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
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
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
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
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
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Belief Myself Success Trust Try Unknown Work
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
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Desire Myself Thinking
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
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
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
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
The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way

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