Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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This joy you feel is life.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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 awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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