Let me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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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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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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