One must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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 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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We are always the same age inside.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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