Gertrude Stein Quotes

We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
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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Argument Believe Breathe Defend Help Myself
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
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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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
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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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Insist Perspective Repeat
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Extraordinary Inspirational Limitation Yourself
Too few is as many as too many.
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Amount Gratitude One Liner Perspective Thankful
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Better Ground Near Sight Walk Yourself
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
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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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Funny Happiness Money Shop

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