There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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 creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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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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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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