If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINThe creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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