QUOTES by Gertrude Stein
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"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."
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"If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic."
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"What is the answer?" [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ] In that case, what is the question?"
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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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"A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive."
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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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"Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful."
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"She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting."
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"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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"I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing"
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"Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous"
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"You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!"
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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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"If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts."
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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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"It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do."
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"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer."
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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
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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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"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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"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."
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