Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINMostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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