Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINI do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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