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.
GERTRUDE STEINYou’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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