You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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We are always the same age inside.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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