I wish that I was where I am.
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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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 like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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 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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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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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