it is all the question of identity. ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside.

Gertrude Stein

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose th... by Gertrude Stein

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

technology inspirational knowledge

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy... by Gertrude Stein

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

miracle joy morning

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life. by Gertrude Stein

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

skillful audacity share

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't... by Gertrude Stein

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

ridiculous might looks

Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

being-yourself coffee real

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are ext... by Gertrude Stein

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

self-discovery extraordinary limits

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

winning success men

I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

has-beens answers sound

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

writing discovery thinking

There is no there there. by Gertrude Stein

There is no there there.

One does not get better but different and older and that is alway... by Gertrude Stein

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

get-better maturity doe

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

strong men funny

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

beautiful happiness life

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his... by Gertrude Stein

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

eye creative writing

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your busi... by Gertrude Stein

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business

simplicity important business

art is the pulse of a nation. by Gertrude Stein

art is the pulse of a nation.

art-is pulse art

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to y... by Gertrude Stein

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

audience literature

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they... by Gertrude Stein

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

want feelings

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop by Gertrude Stein

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

inspirational life funny

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

philosophical women time