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Gertrude Stein

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
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Attraction Evitable Finding Greatness Lover Need Yourself
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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Depend Different Oneself See Time
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
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
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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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
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
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
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Better Ground Near Sight Walk Yourself
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Beside Knowledge Literature
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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Beginning Believe Live Machine Natural Reality Reason Science Thinking
You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Death Learning Yourself
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Change Money Yourself

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