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Gertrude Stein

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
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
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question Yourself
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Born Country Home Myself
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
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
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
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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