It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
GERTRUDE STEINWhat is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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We are always the same age inside.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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