Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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