Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Romance is everything.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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