I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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 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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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