Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINThis 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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