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One Quotes by Gertrude Stein
- I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
- One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
- One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
- It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
- The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things…
- One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears…
- No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who…
- The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing…
- A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
- Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
- The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
- In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
- One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
- Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
- That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way…
- One must dare to be happy.
- Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
- 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 very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
- 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…
- Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kindof village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village....…
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