An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Romance is everything.
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