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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Gertrude Stein

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Change Money Yourself
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
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Business Important Yourself
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
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
You attract what you need like a lover.
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Attraction Lover Need Yourself
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
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 little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
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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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction

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