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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

Gertrude Stein

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
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
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
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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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake 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
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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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
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Beside Knowledge Literature
You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Brilliant Care Lifestyle Live Place Strange Yourself
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Dare Happiness Oneself
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Insist Perspective Repeat
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Attraction Evitable Finding Greatness Lover Need Yourself
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Feeling Kind Live Old Silly Yourself
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
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
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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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Funny Happiness Money Shop
The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way
Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Art Nation One Liner

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

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