Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINMostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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