If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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