The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEINFrom the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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