Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
GERTRUDE STEINWe are always the same age inside.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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