I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEINWhen 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.
GERTRUDE STEINWhat is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINA very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEINHow do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
GERTRUDE STEINWriting and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINFrench people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
GERTRUDE STEINIt 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.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney 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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