What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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But 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?’
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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