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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

Gertrude Stein

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
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 not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Country Generosity Important Yourself
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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Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
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
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Appearance Choice Dance Yourself
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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Attraction Evitable Finding Greatness Lover Need Yourself
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
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
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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