You have to know what you want to get 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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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