I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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