Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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