I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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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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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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