I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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 great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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