Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINI am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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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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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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