You have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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You 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.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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