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History takes time. History makes memory.

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

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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.

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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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.

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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

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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.

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Romance is everything.

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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

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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.

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

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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.

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A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

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Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

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