A diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There 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.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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