One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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