The way to resume is to resume. If we knew everything ahea… - Gertrude Stein

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The way to resume is to resume.

If we knew everything ahead of time, all would be dictation not creation.

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Gertrude Stein (3 February 1874 – 27 July 1946) was an American expatriate writer, poet, feminist, and playwright, who lived most of her life in Europe. She is remembered for her "flow-of-thought" and sometimes "cyclical" or "circular" manner of expressing things.

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Alternative Names: Gertruda Stein • Gertruda Staĭn

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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

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A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

The way to resume is to resume. If we knew everything ahead of time, all would be dictation not creation. - Gertrude Stein

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