It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINAnything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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You have to know what you want to get 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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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