Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to learn to do everything, even to die.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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