Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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