Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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