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“ A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation. ”

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

~ Gertrude Stein

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

~ Gertrude Stein

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.

~ Gertrude Stein

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

~ Gertrude Stein