It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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We are always the same age inside.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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