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.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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