I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINA writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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