It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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