The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEINWar is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Romance is everything.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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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 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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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