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Gertrude Stein Inspirational Quotes (206)

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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
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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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I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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