An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINRomance is everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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