It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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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 takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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