In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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 creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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