You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
GERTRUDE STEINYou’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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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 inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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