Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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