Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINYou look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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We are always the same age inside.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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