You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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