Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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 could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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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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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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