I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINBut the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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