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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

Gertrude Stein

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
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
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Emotional Feeling Literature Sentence
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Genius Time Work Yourself
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
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
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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History Lesson Repeat Teaching
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Funny Happiness Money Shop

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