If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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