Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEINWriting and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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We are always the same age inside.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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 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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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If 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.
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Romance is everything.
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