I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINYou look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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