A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINOne must dare to be happy.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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