Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINThis 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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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