Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINEvery day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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