One must dare to be happy.
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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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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