I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINHow do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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