A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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