GSGertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.

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02Undated

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

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03Undated

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

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04Undated

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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05Undated

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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06Undated

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

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07Undated

A FEATHER.A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

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08Undated

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

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09Undated

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

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10Undated

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

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11Undated

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

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12Undated

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

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13Undated

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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14Undated

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,

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15Undated

It is very easy to love alone.

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16Undated

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.

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17Undated

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

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18Undated

She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. He never said anything. She was afraid then, she was one needing charming stories and happy telling of them and not having that thing she was always trembling.

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19Undated

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

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20Undated

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)

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21Undated

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

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22Undated

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.

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23Undated

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

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24Undated

The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection of the objects he has put into his pictures and he lives in the reflections of his pictures, a writer, a serious writer, conceives himself as existing by and in himself, he does not at all live in the reflection of his books, to write he must first of all exist in himself, but for a painter to be able to paint, the painting must first of all be done.

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