Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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 do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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