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

Quote by Gertrude Stein

Topics: Living Quotes

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

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

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an...

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an...

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there...

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there...

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about...

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about...

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is...

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is...

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by...

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around...

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

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

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

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a...

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a...

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is...

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is...

History takes time. History makes memory.

History takes time. History makes memory.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still...

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still...