A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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