Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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