Let me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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