Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINI understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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