A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney 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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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 am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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