I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEIN
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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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.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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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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