I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINThis 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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