Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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