Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Romance is everything.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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