There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEINAnything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Romance is everything.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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