I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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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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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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