Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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