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.
GERTRUDE STEINFor a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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