Romance is everything.
GERTRUDE STEINIf 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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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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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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