It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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