Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
GERTRUDE STEINThe way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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