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.
GERTRUDE STEINHow do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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