Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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