A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINGenerally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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