If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to know what you want to get it.
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 is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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