It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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