Any time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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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 I because my little dog knows me.
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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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