Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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