How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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The 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.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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This joy you feel is life.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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