Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
GERTRUDE STEINWriting and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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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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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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