Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEINI am I because my little dog knows me.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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