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 STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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