It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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