A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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