I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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