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 STEINIf 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 STEINI am I because my little dog knows me.
GERTRUDE STEINFrom the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
GERTRUDE STEINIn America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINWhoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
GERTRUDE STEINA diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEINWriting and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
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