It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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 am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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