It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINIn America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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