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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Gertrude Stein

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
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Emotional Feeling Literature Sentence
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Depend Different Oneself See Time
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Eat Interest Yourself
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
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
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
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
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
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
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
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
Too few is as many as too many.
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Amount Gratitude One Liner Perspective Thankful
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
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

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