It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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