Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to learn to do everything, even to die.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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One must dare to be happy.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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