Any time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINA 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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