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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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Explore more quotes by Gertrude Stein
"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."
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"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."
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"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."
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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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"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."
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"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."
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"It is very easy to love alone."
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"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
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"Romance is everything."
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