Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
GERTRUDE STEINI could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Romance is everything.
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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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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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 wish that I was where I am.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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