Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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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.
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