Gertrude Stein on oneself
Gertrude Stein118 quotes“Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.”
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Too few is as many as too many.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein
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Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney Everything ceases to fade Leaving my soul all the pain.
Sayed AbbasSayed Abbas To attain success everyone speaks about consistency, don’t give up & patience but no one talk about the start.
Rohit DeoraRohit Deora Take a moment to look back. Change the process slightly from your discovery. Start again.
Hei-Ran ParkHei-Ran Park The silence was broken with the music of your pain, but with every note i could see a part of you healing.
Sophie AliaSophie Alia It has been the craziest year filled with so many adventures, amazing friends, accomplishments & memories.
Little PaulsonLittle Paulson They say what is lost can always be found in the last place you look but I wouldn’t be so sure that you’ll ever see this version of me again.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I want to see our demons complement each other for the rest of our lives.
Jenny WinbladhJenny Winbladh
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
Fidel CastroFidel Castro One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
Stokely CarmichaelStokely Carmichael Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world – so make the acquaintanceship of God now.
Lahiri MahasayaLahiri Mahasaya The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.
Anandamayi MaAnandamayi Ma We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
PetroniusPetronius It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms – verily, The One is all of them.
Anandamayi MaAnandamayi Ma Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
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