America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEINA very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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