You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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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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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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