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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.

Gertrude Stein

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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Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
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
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
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Existence Place
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nature Reduce Science
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
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
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
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
You attract what you need like a lover.
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Attraction Lover Need Yourself
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
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
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
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True

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