Money is always there but the pockets change.
GERTRUDE STEINI have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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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?’
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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