Too few is as many as too many.
GERTRUDE STEINA great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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