I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINI have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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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Money 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.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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