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Gertrude Stein

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner
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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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Change Money Yourself
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Existence Place
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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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Gratitude Silence Thankful
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Audacity Life Love Share Skill

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