Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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You 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.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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