You attract what you need like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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This 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.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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