There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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 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 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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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