#thin

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#beings #human #human beings #interested #reality

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#any #bore #ever #everybody #i

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

— Gertrude Stein

#daily #does #miracle #paint #pleasant

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#dictionary #poetry #rhyming #seen #things

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#art #contemporary #difference #enough #generation

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#am #cameras #everything #hate #i

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#came #childish #day #deep #did

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#doing #even #hold #illusion #important

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? ↗

— John Steinbeck

#approaching #barrier #customs #feel #guilt

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#california #growing #growing up #hockey #knew