I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINGenerally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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