You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
GERTRUDE STEINYou are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINIt 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.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINWhen 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.
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINA great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
GERTRUDE STEINYou 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.
GERTRUDE STEINBut the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEINMostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
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