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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Gertrude Stein

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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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
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
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Creation Deep Perspective Position Yourself
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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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
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
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
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
This joy you feel is life.
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Feeling Joy Life One Liner Yourself
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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