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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Gertrude Stein

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
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
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
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
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
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
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
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Defeat Lose Motivational Win
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Common Information Internet Lose Sense 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
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

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

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