You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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