The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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