Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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