Quote #41
A master-piece ... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
More from Gertrude Stein
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- Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
- Remarks are not literature.
- Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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