It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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