It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINIf the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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