You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
GERTRUDE STEIN
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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