I wish that I was where I am.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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.
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