This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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 inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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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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