When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
GERTRUDE STEINThis joy you feel is life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Romance is everything.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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