You have to know what you want to get it.
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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I wish that I was where I am.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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