Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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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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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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