An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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We are always the same age inside.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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