Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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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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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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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