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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

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Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

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Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

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The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

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