Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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