I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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There 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.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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