Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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It 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.
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