You have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to learn to do everything, even to die.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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 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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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