I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINA writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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This joy you feel is life.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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