It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINSuppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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