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.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Romance is everything.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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