Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This joy you feel is life.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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If 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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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