Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEINI understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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 great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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