We are always the same age inside.
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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