One must dare to be happy.
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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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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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This joy you feel is life.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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 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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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