It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINA little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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We are always the same age inside.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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One must dare to be happy.
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