Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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This joy you feel is life.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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