If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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This joy you feel is life.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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