You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
GERTRUDE STEINYou look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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