Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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