Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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This joy you feel is life.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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If 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.
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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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