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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 have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Declare Myself Patience Patient
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
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Born Country Home Myself
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
You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Brilliant Care Lifestyle Live Place Strange Yourself
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Genius Time Work Yourself
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Beside Knowledge Literature
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Change Money Yourself
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Extraordinary Inspirational Limitation Yourself
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
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
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

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