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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Gertrude Stein

Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
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
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Gratitude Silence Thankful
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
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
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Close Firm Greatness Myself Notice Portrait Writing
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
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way
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
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
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
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
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence

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