Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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If 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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A diary means yes indeed.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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