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.
GERTRUDE STEINBut 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?’
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Romance is everything.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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