You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Romance is everything.
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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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