You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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When 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.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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