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Gertrude Stein

Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Beside Knowledge Literature
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Enough Honesty Myself Selfish Virtue
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
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
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
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
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
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
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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Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Common Information Internet Lose Sense Yourself
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.
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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
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

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