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 STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A diary means yes indeed.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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One must dare to be happy.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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