Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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