A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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