Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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