The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
GERTRUDE STEINthere 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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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.
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