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.
GERTRUDE STEINAs there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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