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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question Yourself
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Born Country Home Myself
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
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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Extraordinary Family Forget Yourself
Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Poem Time
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Appearance Choice Dance Yourself
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People
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
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Appearance Complete Creation Generation Himself
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Funny Happiness Money Shop

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