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.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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 have to know what you want to get it.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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