Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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