It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINA writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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