I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEINAs there was never any question there was never any answer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Romance is everything.
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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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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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