Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINToo few is as many as too many.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Romance is everything.
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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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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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