I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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