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.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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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.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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