It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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