The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Romance is everything.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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