Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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The 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.
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