I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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