Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This 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.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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 could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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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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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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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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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