An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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One must dare to be happy.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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