Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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