I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINToo few is as many as too many.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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