Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINIf 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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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