You attract what you need like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINGenerally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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 isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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