An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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We are always the same age inside.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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