You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Romance is everything.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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