A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINWhoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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