A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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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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