I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINWriting and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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