Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINWhoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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It 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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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