Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINAnything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
GERTRUDE STEINI have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINAs there was never any question there was never any answer.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
GERTRUDE STEINWe are always the same age inside.
GERTRUDE STEINIs it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINIf the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINThis 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.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINThere 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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