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Gertrude Stein

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Belief Myself Success Trust Try Unknown Work
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
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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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
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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Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Business Important Yourself
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
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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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
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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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
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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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time

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