Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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