How I wish I were able to say what I think.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Romance is everything.
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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.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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