This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINI am I because my little dog knows me.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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