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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

Gertrude Stein

Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Listening Myself Self Love
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
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
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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Day Exception Kindness
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Emotional Feeling Literature Sentence
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
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Business Important Yourself
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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Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
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
One must dare to be happy.
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Dare Happiness Oneself
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

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