Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINWriting and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINWhat is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINWhen 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 STEINThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
GERTRUDE STEINEvery day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
GERTRUDE STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEINI am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
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