Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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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.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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