Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
GERTRUDE STEINI wish that I was where I am.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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This joy you feel is life.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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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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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 like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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