It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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 do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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