Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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