An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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 creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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