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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.

Gertrude Stein

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
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
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Enough Honesty Myself Selfish Virtue
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
One must dare to be happy.
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Dare Happiness Oneself
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
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
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
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
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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Declare Myself Patience Patient
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People
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
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Myself Stranger Way Writing
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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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Death Learning Yourself
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Change Money Yourself
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself

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