Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINWe are always the same age inside.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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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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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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 like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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