I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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One must dare to be happy.
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