A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEINYou look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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