Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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’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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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This joy you feel is life.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Romance is everything.
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