A 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 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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The 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.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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