Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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We are always the same age inside.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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 not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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