The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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