Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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