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.
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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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Romance is everything.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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