It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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