How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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