Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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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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