It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINI like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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