For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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