I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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