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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

Gertrude Stein

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
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Feeling Kind Live Old Silly Yourself
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
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Eat Interest 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
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
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
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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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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History Lesson Repeat Teaching
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

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