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.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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