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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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