Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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