Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody 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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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Romance is everything.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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