I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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