One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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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 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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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