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.
GERTRUDE STEINThere ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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