It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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