One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.
Gertrude SteinMostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
Gertrude SteinIf the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
Gertrude Stein