I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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The 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.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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