Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINAnything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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