I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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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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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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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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