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You attract what you need like a lover.

Gertrude Stein

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Day Feeling Joy Life Miracle Morning Yourself
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Close Firm Greatness Myself Notice Portrait Writing
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
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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
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
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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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
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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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
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Belief Myself Success Trust Try Unknown Work
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing

You attract what you need like a lover.

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