This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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 difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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