Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Romance is everything.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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