Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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