Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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