You have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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But 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?’
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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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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