As there was never any question there was never any answer.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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One must dare to be happy.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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