It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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But 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?’
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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