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Gertrude Stein

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Myself Nature Sight View
Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Poem Time
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
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Myself Stranger Way Writing
Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Listening Myself Self Love
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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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
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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Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves
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
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst

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