It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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 are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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