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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Gertrude Stein

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Genius Time Work Yourself
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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
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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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Death Learning Yourself
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Creation Deep Perspective Position Yourself
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nature Reduce Science
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Common Information Internet Lose Sense Yourself
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
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

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