A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to know what you want to get it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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One must dare to be happy.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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