Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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