For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINHow do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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