This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I wish that I was where I am.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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