The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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