Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINI am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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One must dare to be happy.
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