It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINHow likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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