A diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEINForensics is eloquence and reduction.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Romance is everything.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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 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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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