The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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