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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Gertrude Stein

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Close Firm Greatness Myself Notice Portrait Writing
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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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
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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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Day Feeling Joy Life Miracle Morning Yourself
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Desire Myself Thinking
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Appearance Choice Dance 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
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing

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