You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
GERTRUDE STEINSuppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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One must dare to be happy.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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