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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

Gertrude Stein

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question Yourself
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
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
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
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
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
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Audacity Life Love Share Skill
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question

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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