It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINWe are always the same age inside.
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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Romance is everything.
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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 better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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