I wish that I was where I am.
GERTRUDE STEIN
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We are always the same age inside.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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