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.
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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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