Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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We are always the same age inside.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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