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“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“You said a formal dinner was where we dress up!" explained the little boy behind the monkey mask.”
― Michael Kroft, On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Jew and the Goy Boy

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”
― Sigmund Freud

“You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don't dance
So you might as well
dance.”
― Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
― Gertrude Stein

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
― 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

“Let me listen to me and not to them.”
― Gertrude Stein