Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINA great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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