I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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