America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEINThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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