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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.

Gertrude Stein

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Argument Believe Breathe Defend Help Myself
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
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Answer Philosophy
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
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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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Country Generosity Important Yourself
I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Animal Dog Existence Myself
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Business Important Yourself
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Genius Time Work Yourself
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Enough Honesty Myself Selfish Virtue
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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
This joy you feel is life.
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Feeling Joy Life One Liner Yourself
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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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Feeling Kind Live Old Silly Yourself
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Eat Interest Yourself
Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Poem Time
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Myself Stranger Way Writing
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Common Information Internet Lose Sense Yourself
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
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Insist Perspective Repeat
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight

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