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.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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