Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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