I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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