Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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