Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Romance is everything.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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