You have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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 really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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