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.
GERTRUDE STEINI understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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One must dare to be happy.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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