How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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