An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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One must dare to be happy.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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