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Gertrude Stein

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
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
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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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question Yourself
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Insist Perspective Repeat
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
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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Argument Believe Breathe Defend Help Myself
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner
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
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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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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Depend Different Oneself See Time
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Country Generosity Important Yourself

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