I wish that I was where I am.
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.
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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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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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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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