If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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