Let me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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We are always the same age inside.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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One must dare to be happy.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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