Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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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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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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