If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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