One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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One must dare to be happy.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Romance is everything.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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We are always the same age inside.
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