The artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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