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.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Romance is everything.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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