Any time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINThe creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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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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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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