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.
GERTRUDE STEINMostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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This joy you feel is life.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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