Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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