A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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