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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

Gertrude Stein

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Myself Nature Sight View
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Defeat Lose Motivational Win
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
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Answer Philosophy
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
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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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Appearance Choice Dance Yourself
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
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
Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Change Money Place Pocket

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