You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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