Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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 very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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