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.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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