It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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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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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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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