Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
GERTRUDE STEINThe reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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