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.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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