Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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