Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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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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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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