I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINHow do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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