Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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