Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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