How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
GERTRUDE STEINGenerally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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We are always the same age inside.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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