Any time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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