If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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