Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINIn America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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