An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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