It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
GERTRUDE STEINThe only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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