I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINI like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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One must dare to be happy.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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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.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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