I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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