Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINI like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINThere 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.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
GERTRUDE STEINArt is the pulse of a nation.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINAnything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
GERTRUDE STEINThe reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
GERTRUDE STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEINA great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINA sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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