If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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