It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Romance is everything.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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