I am I because my little dog knows me.
GERTRUDE STEINYou’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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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