I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINI like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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