This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude Stein
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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.
- A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
- 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.