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 STEINForensics is eloquence and reduction.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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