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 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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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The 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.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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