If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Romance is everything.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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