I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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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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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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