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 STEINAnyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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This joy you feel is life.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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