A diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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