It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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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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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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