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.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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