Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINWhat is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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