Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINHow likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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