It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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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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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

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

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Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

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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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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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Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

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