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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Gertrude Stein

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Better Ground Near Sight Walk Yourself
Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Change Money Place Pocket
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Day Feeling Joy Life Miracle Morning Yourself
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Enough Honesty Myself Selfish Virtue
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
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
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
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
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
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself
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
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
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself

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