It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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.
GERTRUDE STEINMostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
GERTRUDE STEINHow likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
GERTRUDE STEINThere 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.
GERTRUDE STEINHow do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINFrom the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
GERTRUDE STEINGenerally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
GERTRUDE STEINA very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINIf the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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