Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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One must dare to be happy.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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