An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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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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