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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Gertrude Stein

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Death Lost War
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
Too few is as many as too many.
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Amount Gratitude One Liner Perspective Thankful
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Extraordinary Inspirational Limitation Yourself
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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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
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
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
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
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
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
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Appearance Complete Creation Generation Himself
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Beside Knowledge Literature
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

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