I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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