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.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Romance is everything.
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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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 have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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