If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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 very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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 like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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