There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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.
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