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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Gertrude Stein

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
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
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
Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Listening Myself Self Love
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Extraordinary Family Forget Yourself
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Art Nation One Liner
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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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