A diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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