Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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