I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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