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 little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
GERTRUDE STEINThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINYou attract what you need like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINIf 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.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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