One must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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