It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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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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