The 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.
GERTRUDE STEINHow do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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