It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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