Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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