It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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One must dare to be happy.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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