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b0d81a8	You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.	life dancing	Gertrude Stein
b30cb13	You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take plac	writing inspirational	Gertrude Stein
21a9283	In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.		Gertrude Stein
8b562bc	You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place	writing	Gertrude Stein
15690ef	There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer.		Gertrude Stein
7bfcd66	Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup		Gertrude Stein
b1c6971	You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!		Gertrude Stein
83a9d04	After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.	writing interior-life life-of-the-mind writers	Gertrude Stein
4862d98	I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing		Gertrude Stein
080ea2a	When I go around and speak on campuses,		Gertrude Stein
899ec51	She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.		Gertrude Stein
1bb87be	I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.	grammar-humor	Gertrude Stein
b40cace	A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.	poetry feathers	Gertrude Stein
3f66677	A rose is a rose is a rose.		Gertrude Stein
0d20268	A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.		Gertrude Stein
cfd5904	What is the answer?		Gertrude Stein
1e0bec9	Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.	gertrude-stein information natural	Gertrude Stein
80d379c	Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.		Gertrude Stein
40aed20	I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.	writing narration gertrude-stein narrative	Gertrude Stein
a271f8e	Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding a..		Gertrude Stein
70e28c9	There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.	ida rich-man king	Gertrude Stein
724181f	A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.	generation creator artist	Gertrude Stein
c1d54b9	I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.	poetry love peculiar narration	Gertrude Stein
5e5026f	A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.		Gertrude Stein
e5a0be0	Romance is everything.		Gertrude Stein
e525943	Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.		Gertrude Stein
284dbba	It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.		Gertrude Stein
d143cad	Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.		Gertrude Stein
8c8f56d	One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.		Gertrude Stein
7272ffb	Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.		Gertrude Stein
c70a64b	It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.		Gertrude Stein
297f40b	The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.		Gertrude Stein
1a0a6fe	All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.		Gertrude Stein
d8d9bec	Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.		Gertrude Stein
5be1117	We are always the same age inside.		Gertrude Stein
498de04	Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.		Gertrude Stein
d0b5926	Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.		Gertrude Stein
eb0e315	Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.		Gertrude Stein
e7f2035	What is the answer?" [ I was silent ] "In that case, what is the question?"		Gertrude Stein
da583ff	I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.		Gertrude Stein
71d060d	Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.		Gertrude Stein
ff324ae	The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.		Gertrude Stein
64c1354	To know to know to love her so. Four saints prepare for saints.		Gertrude Stein
1cbfd20	I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.		Gertrude Stein

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

Gertrude Stein

b30cb13

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take plac

writing inspirational

Gertrude Stein

21a9283

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

Gertrude Stein

8b562bc

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place

writing

Gertrude Stein

15690ef

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer.

Gertrude Stein

7bfcd66

Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup

Gertrude Stein

b1c6971

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

Gertrude Stein

83a9d04

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

writing interior-life life-of-the-mind writers

Gertrude Stein

4862d98

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

Gertrude Stein

080ea2a

When I go around and speak on campuses,

Gertrude Stein

899ec51

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

Gertrude Stein

1bb87be

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

grammar-humor

Gertrude Stein

b40cace

A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

poetry feathers

Gertrude Stein

3f66677

A rose is a rose is a rose.

Gertrude Stein

0d20268

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

Gertrude Stein

cfd5904

What is the answer?

Gertrude Stein

1e0bec9

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

gertrude-stein information natural

Gertrude Stein

80d379c

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

Gertrude Stein

40aed20

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

writing narration gertrude-stein narrative

Gertrude Stein

a271f8e

Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding a..

Gertrude Stein

70e28c9

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

ida rich-man king

Gertrude Stein

724181f

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

generation creator artist

Gertrude Stein

c1d54b9

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

poetry love peculiar narration

Gertrude Stein

5e5026f

A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.