I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Romance is everything.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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 artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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