In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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This joy you feel is life.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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