A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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We are always the same age inside.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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