Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEIN
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Illusion
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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