There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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