I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
GERTRUDE STEINIs it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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One must dare to be happy.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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