There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
GERTRUDE STEINI am I because my little dog knows me.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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This joy you feel is life.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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