Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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 is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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