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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

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Creation Deep Perspective Position Yourself
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People
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
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question Yourself
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Amount Gratitude One Liner Perspective Thankful
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Beginning Believe Live Machine Natural Reality Reason Science Thinking
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Answer Philosophy
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking

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