I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
GERTRUDE STEIN
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Refusal
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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