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Too few is as many as too many.

Gertrude Stein

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
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
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Born Country Home Myself
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Eat Interest Yourself
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
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
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
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
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
You attract what you need like a lover.
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Attraction Lover Need Yourself
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
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
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
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

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