Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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