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

Gertrude Stein

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
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
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
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
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Myself Stranger Way Writing
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Day Exception Kindness
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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Answer Philosophy
I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
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
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
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing
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

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