For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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