I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINYou look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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 artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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Romance is everything.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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One must dare to be happy.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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