Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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