How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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