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

Gertrude Stein

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Animal Dog Existence Myself
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
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
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
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
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
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Death Lost War
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
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Desire Myself Thinking

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