Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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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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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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Romance is everything.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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