For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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