For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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