Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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 is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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