You have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINSuppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Romance is everything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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