Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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This joy you feel is life.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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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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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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