Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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