I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINYou attract what you need like a lover.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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