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.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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