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.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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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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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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