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.
GERTRUDE STEINFor a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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