Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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