This is the place of places and and it is here.
GERTRUDE STEINWhoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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 creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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