Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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This joy you feel is life.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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