Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINBut 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?’
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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