Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
GERTRUDE STEINMostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Romance is everything.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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