I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEINI am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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