I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINBut the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINHow likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
GERTRUDE STEINI have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINI like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINIf 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.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
GERTRUDE STEINArt is the pulse of a nation.
GERTRUDE STEINA creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINIt 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 STEINNothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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