A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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