More from Gertrude Stein
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein As there was never any question there was never any answer.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein
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