Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to know what you want to get it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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