I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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This joy you feel is life.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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