It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEINToo few is as many as too many.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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