Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINArt isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINConsidering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEINThis 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.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
GERTRUDE STEINOne must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEINI am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney 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.
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.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
GERTRUDE STEINThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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