Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of 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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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