A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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