It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to know what you want to get it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Romance is everything.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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