Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINA creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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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 view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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