I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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