Art is the pulse of a nation.
GERTRUDE STEIN
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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 is the pulse of a nation.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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But 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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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