A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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