How I wish I were able to say what I think.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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