It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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