Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This joy you feel is life.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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