Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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