Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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