I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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