Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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This joy you feel is life.
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