How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
GERTRUDE STEINIt 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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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