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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Gertrude Stein

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Answer Philosophy
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
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Art Nation One Liner
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
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
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Amount Gratitude One Liner Perspective Thankful
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves

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