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.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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 everything.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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 awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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