Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
GERTRUDE STEINIf 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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