Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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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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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Romance is everything.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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