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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
- Then
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can do it then why do it?
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
- Lesson
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
- Indeed
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- Nov 07, 2020
A diary means yes indeed.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
- Bad Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
- Write
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- Nov 07, 2020
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
- Inevitable
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
- Nov 07, 2020
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
- Finding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
- Faded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
- Nov 07, 2020
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
- Nov 07, 2020
Romance is everything.
- Nov 07, 2020
Remarks are not literature.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very easy to love alone.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no there there.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
History takes time. History makes memory.
- Rose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
- Cosmic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
- Gonna
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- Nov 07, 2020
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Century
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
- Careful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
- Case
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me listen to me and not to them.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are always the same age inside.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020