Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to know what you want to get it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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