One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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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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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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