Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINA very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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